Trump's tweet was referring to a South African policy implemented at the end of apartheid in 1994 that allows the government to buy white-owned farms for redistribution to black citizens when the seller is willing to cooperate, Reuters reported.

The president noted the killing of farmers in the nation.

According to Reuters, while violence has been a serious issue in the nation and 47 farmers were killed in 2017 and 2018, it actually marks a 20-year record low for farm murders.

The South African government on Thursday fired back at Trump, saying the country is handling land reforms in a "careful and inclusive manner."

"South Africa totally rejects this narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past," the government tweeted.

"South Africa will speed up the pace of land reform in a careful and inclusive manner that does not divide our nation," the government added

The former KKK leader, Duke, has often offered praise for Trump, most recently after the president's widely criticized press conference with Russia President Vladimir Putin.

“I [sic] my lifetime I have never seen such a courageous attack on the whole of the ZOG, the Zionist Occupied Government of the United States and the Zionist Occupied Media!” Duke tweeted in July. “Today Trump is a Hero! Trump is no Jesus but they hate him as much!!!!!!”

“Bravo Trump! Bravo Russia! Bravo to all the true American Patriots who put America first and Peace and Justice first before the Zionist Deep Evil State ruling American Media and Politics,” Duke continued.